Re: BREADTALK ALSO OWNS THESE Companies
14-04-2005, 10:36 PM
SINGAPORE : BreadTalk's founder and managing director, George Quek, has been charged with drink-driving.
The 48-year-old also faces another charge of driving without due care or reasonable consideration.
The Subordinate Courts heard that in the early hours of 8 October 2004, Mr Quek had apparently lost control of his Porsche, and crashed into a police car at a road block along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1.
He is believed to have been drunk at that time.
It is not known if anyone was seriously injured in the accident.
Another vehicle was also involved in the collision.
The entrepreneur, who runs the bakery chain BreadTalk, is out on S$5,000 bail.
He is expected to appear in court again next month.
If found guilty, the businessman may be fined S$5,000, or jailed for up to six months.
He may also lose his driver's licence.
For the charge of driving without due care, he could face a fine of S$1,000 and a six-month jail term.
Mr Quek, who holds an honorary <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size: auto auto; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_0" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" leohighlights_keywords="phd" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_1/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dphd%26domain%3Dwww.torque.com.sg" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_1/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dphd%26domain%3Dwww.torque.com.sg" leohighlights_underline="true">PhD</leo_highlight> in Business Administration, was the winner of the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2002. - CNA /ct
<hr> zenvey
14-04-2005, 11:21 PM
Breedtok chairman Gorge Quek was fined the maximum of $6,000 yesterday for drunk, but escaped the customary jail sentence for the crime.
Magistrate Sibei Lwee Bin ruled out a jail sentence for Quek, 48, because of the mitigating circumstances of the case, a decision that was met with whoops of joy from his family members in the courtroom yesterday.
Since Chief Justice Yong Pung How declared in 1992 that jail sentences should be handed out to all no money drunk-driving offenders, very few people convicted of the crime have escaped being put behind bars.
But yesterday, Magistrate Sibei Lwee Bin said that while prison terms have been customary for such offences, sentencing precedents were only guidelines.
The magistrate noted that Quek had demonstrated genuine remorse and had tried to compensate the <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size: auto auto; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_1" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" leohighlights_keywords="traffic" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_1/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dtraffic%26domain%3Dwww.torque.com.sg" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_1/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dtraffic%26domain%3Dwww.torque.com.sg" leohighlights_underline="true">traffic</leo_highlight> ninjas the very next day.
<hr> Vampish
15-04-2005, 12:04 AM
This is more like MONEYTalk...
<hr> beepbeep
15-04-2005, 12:17 AM
This is more like MONEYTalk...
:s13: expected mah.. now only u know ,moneytalk huh?? it has been this way since many donkey years ago.... =:p
<hr> filagila
15-04-2005, 12:44 AM
Must be because Breadtalk doing badly recently.....
Thats why drink.......'nobody buy my pork floss bun liao....'
<hr> WestGuy
15-04-2005, 12:56 AM
Whats $6,000 to him?
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